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Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
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Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage (Paperback)
Series: Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
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Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to
shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a
tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book
brings together for the first time the collected wisdom of
international leaders in the theory and practice of crowdsourcing
in cultural heritage. It features eight accessible case studies of
groundbreaking projects from leading cultural heritage and academic
institutions, and four thought-provoking essays that reflect on the
wider implications of this engagement for participants and on the
institutions themselves. Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is more
than a framework for creating content: as a form of mutually
beneficial engagement with the collections and research of museums,
libraries, archives and academia, it benefits both audiences and
institutions. However, successful crowdsourcing projects reflect a
commitment to developing effective interface and technical designs.
This book will help practitioners who wish to create their own
crowdsourcing projects understand how other institutions devised
the right combination of source material and the tasks for their
'crowd'. The authors provide theoretically informed, actionable
insights on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, outlining the
context in which their projects were created, the challenges and
opportunities that informed decisions during implementation, and
reflecting on the results. This book will be essential reading for
information and cultural management professionals, students and
researchers in universities, corporate, public or academic
libraries, museums and archives.
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